Re: missing /dev/cdrom on woody
Thanks for the tip, Erik. The Ultras are SCSI based so it worked and now
things are up and running.
Regards
Tom Korte
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001 16:56:05 Erik Mouw wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 04:36:41PM -0600, T Korte wrote:
> > I have installed Woody on an Ultra1 and there is no /dev/cdrom so I
> > can't access the cd drive.
> >
> > Does anyone have any suggestions on how to go about creating it?
> > "MAKEDEV cdrom" doesn't do it. Will I have to do a mknod as well?
>
> It's not a device but a symlink to the real CDROM device. Usually "ln
> -s scd0 cdrom" or in the /dev directory fixes the problem on Sun
> hardware. Can't remember if an Ultra1 uses SCSI, so it might be that
> the link has to point to one of the IDE devices (hda-hdd).
>
>
> Erik
>
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